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| Name: |
Vega
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Age: |
Four and a half years old
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| Gender: |
Female
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Kind: |
Balinese
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| Home: |
Vicenza, Italy
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This
beautiful lady is our Vega. She is quite a special girl and quite a
big girl as well. She is now 4 1/2 years old and a whopping 10 kg (22 pounds).
When she was first brought home she was a normal sized eight-week-old kitten.
Let's start out with her story. Vega was found in the warehouse of my
husband's work, inside the American base here in Vicenza, Italy. She was
hard to catch as she was tiny enough to slip inside the slats of palettes
and squish herself behind boxes and under freezers. Seems she was dumped
there just the day before hubby caught her as she was never seen before
that. Hubby's boss called asking if he would catch her when he came into
work. He spent more than two hours trying to catch her. He told me she was a
'savage'. She tore into a heavy pair of work gloves and gave him a nasty
bite. Hee hee! When he came home in the morning he brought her inside and
straight into the bathroom as we had no where else to put her due to the
fact we had taken in another abandoned kitty who had just had four kittens and
they were in my husband's work room. I went in to see Vega and she looked
so scared. I decided to see just how aggressive she was so took a cat toy
to stroke her. She melted the second she was touched and began purring. I
called hubby into the bathroom where he found me, about ten minutes after he
had gotten home, with Vega in my arms with her little eyes closed and
purring her heart out.
Vega is a lover. She isn't a big talker but she lets you know what she
wants. She loves everyone (with fur) that she comes in contact with. As for
the actual people... well that's a different story. She loves her people.
She growls and runs and hides if someone comes into the house she doesn't
know. Though she is now the alpha cat in the house she still grooms her
sisters and brothers. She loves to 'headbonk' them as well. She has some
quirky habits. She actually brushes herself. I will hold her brush and she
will rub over it in the direction and in the location she wants to be
groomed. She can do this for hours. She also has solo races through the
house where she will literally ricochet off doors and walls to change
direction without breaking stride or slowing down.
She is a dream of a cat. She is the sweetest, most loving and special girl.
Her ice blue eyes are something out of this world and her fur is like spun
silk. She is not only beautiful but funny and unique in so many wonderful
ways. We love her very much and can't imagine not having kept this little
girl, who, by the paws of our pet angels, was brought into our life. She is
our 'dolce principessa'.
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